Blond, light brown and redhaired Southern Italians

[Fra Baldracco]

I didnt read most of it.. but has anyone commented how most women on the pics have fake blonde hair?? Im sure thats not hard to find in any country

eh eh you right

[Anthropologique]

I didnt read most of it.. but has anyone commented how most women on the pics have fake blonde hair?? Im sure thats not hard to find in any country

Don't know if most are fake blond. I'm not an expert on hair dyes.

[Talvi]

Don't know if most are fake blond. I'm not an expert on hair dyes.

Well you can start by looking at the hair roots and eyebrows.


Or go live somewhere with a high percentage of real blondes.
Youll know.

[Ratnasiri]

ABRUZZO (Central East)

This woman has visibly dyed hair.

[Fra Baldracco]

This woman has visibly dyed hair.

She mustn't be the example of our youth,that's for sure.

[supergiovane]

Livi, who did extensive pigmentation surveys in Italy, nationwide recorded an average of 8-9% fair hair - pale blond to light brown and light red. One caveat, he was a 19th century anthropologist who used mainly conscripts (presumably all male) as measurement subjects. The highest light hair frequencies were found in Northern Italy, about 12%.

not really, Livi didn't include light brown in the blondism category, we've already been over this, in fact the light brown shades are lumped into the brown label



as for blue/gray eyes french-americans have a 28% of it against a 31,4% of northern italians in Frassetto.

[Anthropologique]

This woman has visibly dyed hair.

Likely dyed. She may well have some form of light hair, although not pale or bright blond.

[Anthropologique]

not really, Livi didn't include light brown in the blondism category, we've already been over this, in fact the light brown shades are lumped into the brown label



as for blue/gray eyes french-americans have a 28% of it against a 31,4% of northern italians in Frassetto.

I haven't read Livi directly but from various discussions it seems there are a lot of nuances in his work. Anyway, it's hardly important who has what percentage of light hair and eyes.

I have little faith in the writings of 19th century anthropologists. If you are interested in pigmentation studies there is a recent one by Jablonsky (2006?) that sampled the skin tones of about 15 European population groups. Also, some in-depth research may be coming out in the next two years from Harvard Medical and U. Michigan on European eye and hair color and skin tone. I suspect the conclusions reached will destroy many myths.

[Fra Baldracco]

not really, Livi didn't include light brown in the blondism category, we've already been over this, in fact the light brown shades are lumped into the brown label



as for blue/gray eyes french-americans have a 28% of it against a 31,4% of northern italians in Frassetto.

hahahaah this map is hilarious 60 per cent of italians have light brown hair hahahaah that's sounds hilarios hahaha

[Libertas]

The map shows ALL SHADES OF BROWN hair (capelli castani di ogni tonalita') in Italy, not just light brown.
Can you read Italian?